#podcast

theintercept.com/2020/02/12/its-armageddon-time-for-the-democratic-party/

#video

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6SYQsYAJns

"It does not take a barricade-building socialist to recognize that our daily lives are not imbued with democratic notions and activities. We all know at the end of the day that our workplaces are dictatorships where a certain person, or group of persons, usually disconnected from the actual operation of the enterprise, run them with iron fists. If you step out of line, your punishment is the loss of your job, which pays the wage that provides for the means to live. There is a democracy deficit at work, and that deficit spreads to legislatures locally, nationally, and even internationally."

roarmag.org/essays/richard-wolff-understanding-socialism-review/

"It is, by and large, a mirror of attempts by right-wing groups to limit access to abortion and gut access to reproductive health care under the guise of “patient safety” and religious freedom. It’s the same basic playbook, a culture war narrative paired with a try-anything-once legislative approach that, if and when it works, will have devastating consequences for all Americans’ basic rights."

https://newrepublic.com/article/156539/new-anti-trans-culture-war-hiding-plain-sight

"We face a rabid, cornered beast with the devil's strength, but no matter how it snarls or how wide its arc of bloody destruction, it can't live forever - because it's already dying."

https://dsa-lsc.org/2019/07/07/dual-power-is-not-passive/

"Within cities, Bookchin discusses the possibilities of advancing a minimum program and a maximum program. The former meets demands for improved welfare of residents and generates pockets of direct participation and empowerment that can serve as stepping stones to more wholesale institutional transformation. The maximum program is one in which people power is at the center of this institutional transformation: here, decision-making power is transferred from municipal-level representative institutions to that of direct-democratic assemblies."

https://dsa-lsc.org/2018/07/13/municipalist-syndicalism-organizing-the-new-working-class/

"Antifascism is not just opposition to a terrifying and violent order that erases and extinguishes difference. It’s also a positive commitment to protecting others, staking out a belief that life is sacred and that our common humanity is worth celebrating. When we downplay antifascism, we risk losing these legacies, our shared left history, and potentially the lives of our marginalized comrades...maybe even ourselves. Let’s take the fascist threat seriously, and let’s make that a part of building a better world, one where we re-affix these plaques and uplift our solidarity."

dsabuild.org/antifascist-reflections

"A socialist movement that attempts to view the upheavals of humanity solely through the lens of class analysis is forced to sweep a great many pressing realities under the rug."

https://dsa-lsc.org/2020/02/11/inclusive-socialism-2/

Bernie comes again on top in the 538 model

"In a new paper ”What is socialism today: Conceptions of a cooperative economy”, John Roemer starts with three essential pillars of all economic systems: an ethos of economic behavior, an ethic of distributive justice, and a set of property relations. In capitalism the three pillars are (1) individualistic ethos, (2) laissez-faire (no redistribution), and (3) privately owned means of production with profit accruing to capitalists. Until now, Roemer argues, all attempts to transcend capitalism focused on element No. 3, replacing privately owned capital with state or socially (collectively) owned capital. They have all failed."

www.socialisteconomist.com/2020/02/transcending-capitalism-three-different.html